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English Title: Protecting Endangered Minority Languages:Sociolinguistic Perspectives 2002. The present issue of UNESCO’s International Journal on Multicultural Societies takes up a previously established thematic thread by addressing questions of linguistic diversity and language policy. Here, our focus is on problems of endangered minority languages and their protection through public policy-making. Whereas previous issues have investigated the legal framework of language policies at international, regional, and national level (see Vol. 3, No. 1 and Vol. 3, No. 2), the current issue, edited by Eda Derhemi, approaches the topic from a sociolinguistic perspective. It attempts to analyse the causes, circumstances and results of language endangerment as well as the social conditions and effects of political intervention in favour of the survival of endangered minority languages.